Tsu-Jae King Liu was born in
Ithaca,
NYin 1963. She received the B.S.,
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford
University in 1984, 1986 and 1994,
respectively. She joined the Xerox Palo Alto
Research Center as a Member of Research Staff in
1992, to research and develop polycrystalline-silicon thin-film transistor
technologies for high-performance flat-panel display and imaging
applications. During her tenure with Xerox PARC, she served as a
Consulting Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford
University. In August 1996 she joined the faculty of the University of California at
Berkeley, where she is now the Conexant Systems
Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
(EECS) and Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. From 2000 to 2004 and from 2006
to 2008, she served as the Faculty Director of the UC Berkeley
Microfabrication Laboratory. From 2003 to
2004, she also served as Vice Chair for Graduate Matters in the EECS
Department. In 2004-2006 she was Senior Director of
Engineering in the Advanced Technology Group of Synopsys,
Inc. (Mountain View, CA). From July 2008 through June 2012 she was Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering.

Dr. Liu's
awards include the Ross M. Tucker AIME Electronics Materials Award (1992)
for seminal work in polycrystalline silicon-germanium thin films, an NSF
CAREER Award (1998) for research in thin-film transistor technology, the
DARPA Significant Technical Achievement Award (2000) for development of
the FinFET, the Electrical Engineering Award for Outstanding Teaching at
UC Berkeley (2003), the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award (2010) for contributions
to nanoscale MOS transistors, memory devices, and MEMs devices, the
Electrochemical Society Dielectric Science and
Technology Division Thomas D. Callinan Award (2011) for excellence in
dielectrics and insulation investigations, the
Intel Outstanding Researcher in Nanotechnology Award (2012), and the SIA University Researcher Award (2014). Her research
activities are presently in nanometer-scale logic and memory
devices, and advanced materials, process technology, and
devices for energy-efficient electronics. She has authored
or co-authored over 450 publications and holds over 90 patents.